"A city that is compact together." The de
scription of Jerusalem in the 122d Psalm ap
plies as strongly today. This aerial view looks
north from above a onetime no man's land.
Shrines sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam crowd the 4,000-year-old city.
Jerusalem became a focus of Israel's history
about 1000 B.C., when King David captured
a Canaanite city (within the chart's dashed
line) and made it his capital.
After David's son Solomon was anointed
king near Gihon Spring (1), he built a splendid
Temple on a huge platform. In 587 B.C. the
Babylonians razed it, but by the time of Christ,
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